Room Number: TRS 2-164
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Chair: Naomi Nkealah (U Witwatersrand)
Speakers:
Naomi Nkealah (U Witwatersrand), “Colonial disruptions and women’s resistance: Rupture as enabling Indigenous African feminist activism”
Isaiah Ode (U Lagos), “Performing Activism For Change: Okoh’s Edewede and Osofisan’s Morountondun As Paradigm”
Prateeksha Pathak (York U), “The Spectacle of Mourning: Analysing Women’s Activism in Kashmir”
Paper Summaries:
Naomi Nkealah (U Witwatersrand), “Colonial disruptions and women’s resistance: Rupture as enabling Indigenous African feminist activism”
In this paper, I look at the ways in which colonialism disrupted African women’s socio-economic practices and how in turn women’s resistance to these disruptions brought to visibility indigenous African feminist activism. I argue that colonial disruptions and African women’s feminist activism share a knotted relationship.
Isaiah Ode (U Lagos), “Performing Activism For Change: Okoh’s Edewede and Osofisan’s Morountondun As Paradigm”
The author shall critically review protests and activism as products of political, social and cultural concerns. The work shall adopt the literary method of research to discuss how Okoh’s Edewede and Osofisan’s Moruntodun reflect the political and socio-cultural state of Nigeria in recent times and recommend the effective way forward.
Prateeksha Pathak (York U), “The Spectacle of Mourning: Analysing Women’s Activism in Kashmir”
The violent insurgency and counter-insurgency movements in Kashmir led to mass killings, torture, and enforced disappearance of many Kashmiri men. These forced disappearances compelled women to occupy public spaces and resist through collective mourning. My paper will analyse these counter-memories of Kashmiri women that gradually interrogate the state-sponsored narrative and dismantle popular perceptions.